{"id":814,"date":"2012-10-02T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/?p=814"},"modified":"2013-02-27T12:15:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T12:15:40","slug":"the-secret-life-of-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/2012\/10\/02\/the-secret-life-of-algae\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Life of Algae"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\nYou may not know it, but algae is undoubtedly the world\u2019s most important organism. Scientists estimate that, rather vitally for all of life, it produces between 70 and 80 percent of the oxygen in the atmosphere. Thanks, algae!<\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Saturday 20th October<\/strong>, Science London will be making an appearance at the Bloomsbury Festival to show you what it\u2019s like being algae. Forget angels and pin-heads, we will be conducting a craft-based investigation to see how much algae can fit into a waterdrop. Expect hands-on activities and probably more algae facts than you can handle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Saturday 20th October 2012<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> Between midday and 4pm<br \/>\n<strong>Place:<\/strong> The Caf\u00e9 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onekx.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">One KX<\/a>, 120 Cromer Street, WC1H 8BS [<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?q=120+Cromer+Street,+London,+Greater+London+WC1H+8BS&amp;hl=en&amp;ll=51.527289,-0.122716&amp;spn=0.009705,0.019763&amp;sll=51.526248,-0.125774&amp;sspn=0.004853,0.009881&amp;hnear=120+Cromer+St,+London+WC1H+8BS,+United+Kingdom&amp;t=m&amp;z=16\" target=\"_blank\">gmap<\/a>]<br \/>\n<strong>Cost:<\/strong> Free<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/374162855994567\/?context=create\" target=\"_blank\">The event<\/a> on the One KX FaceBook page.\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/visibleearth.nasa.gov\/view.php?id=73012\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/summerbloom.jpg\" alt=\"Summer Bloom in the Baltic Sea\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Summer Bloom in the Baltic Sea courtesy of NASA<\/em>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Pictures from the event van be seen here:<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed='true' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sciencelondon\/sets\/72157632872808416\/' title='The Secret Life of Algae by sciencelondon, on Flickr'><img src='https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8532\/8512996916_f4a57e05af.jpg' width='800' height='600' alt='The Secret Life of Algae'><\/a><script async src='https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not know it, but algae is undoubtedly the world\u2019s most important organism. Scientists estimate that, rather vitally for all of life, it produces between 70 and 80 percent of the oxygen in the atmosphere. Thanks, algae! On Saturday 20th October, Science London will be making an appearance at the Bloomsbury Festival to show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":1350777600,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past","category-scicraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/science-london.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}